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‘IT/OT convergence is a problem statement’ – ‘co-creation’ in industrial IoT (12-inch remix)

Note, this is an excerpt from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called ‘Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale’. Go here for the full report (free to download). It takes from and extends a...

PTC on 2020: The true value of industrial IoT ‘will out’ as business pressures rise

Joseph Biron, chief technology officer for IoT, PTC: “At the turn of the decade, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter and PTC president and chief executuve Jim Heppelmann laid out the industrial race for smart, connected products, and how the early movers stood to gain. “Using...

OSIsoft on 2020: 3D goes 4D, a sharper edge, AI gets knocked down – 10 IoT predictions

Michael Kanellos, IoT analyst, OSIsoft: 1. IoT declares victory “IoT projects are often portrayed as the quickest way to get yourself fired with, allegedly, ‘close to three fourths’ of IoT projects failing. In reality, success is the norm. “Gartner’s Eric Goodness conducted a poll that 57 per...

‘Enterprises care about the insights, not the data’ – Arm on co-creation in industrial IoT

This interview, with Niall Strachan, director of product at UK-based Arm’s Pelion IoT business, is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, called 'Crossing the IT/OT divide – co-creation, co-configuration, and how to bring industrial IoT to scale'. Go here for the...

‘The future bubbles up’ – IIC on the principles and practicalities of industrial IoT

Stephen Mellor picks up where he left off, and where we left him: the challenge with industrial IoT to gain widespread adoption is as much to do with interpretation as with deployment. Different industrial disciplines have different demands, even if they sometimes appear the...

‘You need a villain in the piece’ – private LTE threat to carriers is overplayed, says Nokia

Will carriers be ousted, or forced to cede ground, in the enterprise market with the rise of private networking and the liberalisation of spectrum in the 5G era? Nokia thinks the existential threat to the operator community has been overplayed. “By and large, almost exclusively,...

BehrTech strikes deal to simplify IT/OT integration in industrial IoT charge

BehrTech, licensee of the new MIOTY low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology, has announced a deal to integrate business and operations data for enterprises seeking to deploy sensor and analytics solutions. BehrTech has signed with fellow Canadian firm Orange Oranges, a Vancouver-based startup, specializing in IT/OT data...

Nokia counts 120 private LTE customers, widens spectrum support, intros new devices

Nokia has deployed private LTE networks with more than 120 customers across multiple industries and geographies, it has revealed.  The Finnish vendor said it had deployed almost two in five (37 per cent), on average, of its total private wireless networks in Europe, followed by...

Nokia joins with Hitachi, Globalstar to push private LTE and 5G in Japan and Africa

Nokia is working with Hitachi Kokusai Electric in Japan to deploy private LTE and 5G networks for industrial and government customers in Japan. It has struck a parallel deal in Africa with mobile satellite provider Globalstar to enable enterprises to deploy mobile-based applications in...

Walmart debuts ‘largest’ blockchain system for 70 trucking companies in Canada

Walmart Canada has launched a blockchain-based freight and payment network for 70 third-party trucking companies carrying goods for 400-odd Walmart stores in Canada. The new platform, designed with Toronto-based blockchain developer DLT Labs, uses distributed ledger technology to track deliveries, verify transactions, and automate...

Hugo Boss on how to make sewing machines sing – and see into the future

German fashion house Hugo Boss has been applying advanced analytics to its production plants in four ways, it told IoT Solutions World Congress in Barcelona last week. These variously cover predictive maintenance, line optimisation, and efficiencies around consumption of materials and energy. Speaking during a...

Elisa rolls-out industrial IoT to 100 P&G factories, says ‘world will change’ with 5G

Finnish telecoms company Elisa is supporting the digital upgrade of around 100 factories owned by US consumer goods company Procter & Gamble, following an initial rollout of IoT monitoring and insights at 10 sites. The partnership, which has been openly discussed by Elisa on...

‘5G? My indifference is unbounded’ – IIC on the bigger battles for industrial IoT

This is just the beginning, says the Industrial Internet Consortium. Preoccupations with technology are only ever fleeting. The stakes are higher; the future is still being mapped out. 5G – so what? Who cares, really, so long as it works? Connectivity is a utility...

SMEs can ‘punch above their weight’ with carrier-IoT as-a-service, says Vodafone

Small and medium sized enterprises can “punch above their weight” in global markets by taking IoT as-a-service from mobile operators. Where large organisations will go it alone, and develop their own IoT platforms internally, smaller companies must seek specialist partners. At the same time,...

Killer questions in IoT: Should enterprises wait for 5G to start IoT?

It seems, almost, like a daft question, except the hype around 5G is so all-consuming it threatens to eat complementary IoT technologies alive – most of which have the distinct advantage of being available already. It is dangerous ground, because IoT installations need time...

Nokia and Microsoft bundle private LTE and Azure IoT for operators

Microsoft and Nokia are offering a private LTE and IoT bundle for operators and enterprises. UK based BT is the first operator to resell the package, offered as a managed service. The arrangement, which sees the Microsoft’s Azure based cloud and analytics offered with...

Variety of verticals are interested in smarter ecosystems

According to?Himanshu Khurana, CTO of Honeywell Building Solutions, while the term ?smart building? might be used by some verticals and not others, various industries and environments, including hospitality, airports and hospitals are all showing increased interest in establishing smarter ecosystems. ?The stakeholders care about the...

There are only three IoT use cases, and one doesn’t exist yet – simplicity, scale, and the state of ‘things’

IoT Solutions World Congress, in its fifth year (2019), has the whiff of MWC about it. It’s in Barcelona, at the same venue, and the faces are familiar -- with a number of the European telecoms giants, big cloud brands, and systems integrators scattered...

Deutsche Telekom launches blockchain trading platform for German enterprises

Deutsche Telekom has launched a blockchain marketplace for German enterprises. The new German blockchain ecosystem (GBE) will enable customers to “map” different applications using blockchain. The service, from Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems, will allow businesses to map a product's entire supply chain in a distributed...

Sierra Wireless bundles devices, connectivity into ‘full-stack’ IoT platform for OEMs

Sierra Wireless has released its new Octave IoT platform, first announced in June as an integrated offer with Microsoft’s Azure IoT cloud solution. It claims the platform is "unique" as the only ‘full-stack’ IoT package on the market, combining hardware, connectivity, and management software...

Kaspersky detects 105 million attacks on IoT devices globally in H1

Global cybersecurity specialist Kaspersky said that it has detected 105 million attacks on IoT devices coming from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first six months of the year. The company highlighted that this figure is seven times more than the number found in H1...

What is mMTC in 5G NR, and how does it impact NB-IoT and LTE-M

The cellular IoT ecosystem, the cellular community would have us believe, is growing fast. The GSMA counted 89 NB-IoT networks and 34 LTE-M launches as of October 2019, with several operators running both technologies in tandem, at doubling in 12 months.  The number of NB-IoT...

Four prime sectors for industrial LTE in private or shared spectrum

The steady liberalisation of radio spectrum for private and shared usage in various markets, along with the growing realisation among traditional network operators that their licensed spectrum mat be better used for dedicated applications in under-covered locales, means the industrial set has a number...

ZTE takes part in 5G-based smart factory project in China

  ZTE and China Telecom assisted Australian firm Bluetron in commissioning what they claim is China's first 5G Standalone site, which put 5G slicing, edge computing and smart manufacturing into trial to help Bluetron build a new 5G smart factory. In order to meet data requirements...